Picaresque

Definition: Picaresque

Picaresque

Adjective

1. Involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero".

Date "picaresque" was first used: 1810. (references)

Etymology: Picaresque \Pic`a*resque"\, adjective. [French expression, from Spanish picaro rogue.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Picaresque

Non-English Usage: "Picaresque" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (picaresque).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Picaresque (2002)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo De Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival (Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures) (reference) Benjy Lopez: A Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return (reference) Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Romance Series) (reference) Edward, Edward: A Part of His Story and of History, 1795-1816, Set Out in Three Parts in This Form of a New-Old Picaresque Romance That Is Also a stud (reference) Road-Book America: Contemporary Culture and the New Picaresque (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Picaresque" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Picaresque" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	20	78,262

Expression using "picaresque": picaresque novel. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "picaresque": adventurous-picaresque.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "picaresque"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pikaresk, aventurash (cloak-and-dagger). (various references)

Arabic		‏تشردي, ‏ذو علاقة بالمتشردين. (various references)

Czech		šibalský (impish). (various references)

Finnish		veijariromaani (picaresque novel). (various references)

French		picaresque. (various references)

German		schelmenroman (picaresque novel). (various references)

Hebrew		הרפתקני (adventurous, audacious, madcap). (various references)

Hungarian		pikareszk, csavargóregény. (various references)

Italian		picaresco. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ピアノ線 (atomic bomb, clown, piano wire, picador, Picasso, piccata, piggyback, pioneer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ピカレスク . (various references)

Pig Latin		icaresquepay

Portuguese		varanda (balcony, gallery, gazabo, gazebo, porch, stoop, terrace, veranda). (various references)

Russian		авантюрный (adventurous, buccaneering). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		avanturistički (adventure). (various references)

Spanish		picaresco (arch, roguish). (various references)

Swedish		pikaresk-. (various references)

Turkish		haydutlarla ilgili, hırsız ve suçlularla ilgili. (various references)

Ukranian		шахрайський (fraudulent, pettifogging, puckish, rascally, snide), авантюрний (wildcat). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Spanish	900-Modern	picaresco. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "picaresque": picaresques. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Picaresque" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dianesque, diceyesque, piscaresque. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-p-q-r-s-u"
	-2 letters: acquires, causerie, epicures, periques, queasier, reequips.
	-3 letters: acquire, apercus, aperies, auspice, caiques, cesurae, cirques, epicure, escaper, esquire, perique, piecers, pierces, precise, quaeres, queries, recipes, reequip, respace, saucier, scauper, scrapie, spacier, upraise.
	-4 letters: aeries, apercu, apices, apiece, aspire, caique, capers, capris, caries, carpus, casque, causer, cereus, cerias, cerise, ceruse, cesura, cirque, crapes, crease, creeps.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-p-q-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: picaresques.
	+2 letters: quadricepses.
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